Bajie (Cho Hakkai) Agrees to Marry One of the Widow's Three Daughters (Shinshin, Rinrin, and Aiai), from the series The Journey to the West, A Popular Version (Tsûzoku Saiyûki)

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MFA impressions: 11.37746, 11.39778
A scene from Ch. 23 of the sixteenth-century Chinese fantasy novel, The Journey to the West (Ch. Xiyouji, J. Saiyûki).

Signed

Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画

Marks

丑二改

Provenance

By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.